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Tutorials. Paper, Plastic, or Furoshiki? Origami Flowers Instructions - Origami Tulip Photos and Diagrams. The tulip is a flower with lots of character, and this origami tulip is no less so.

Origami Flowers Instructions - Origami Tulip Photos and Diagrams

It uses one piece of paper for the petals, another for the leaf and stem. Made this origami? Comment and Submit your photo using the comment box at the end of this page! Extraordinary Insect Origami. Www.origami-resource-center.com/support-files/dollarkoifish.pdf. Recycled Pokemon Purse by *TheBird-TheBee on deviantART. Fir Tree (Francesco Guarnieri): Instructions. Retro printable Christmas boxes and tags. If you like nostalgic Christmas graphics, you'll get a kick out of these tiny Christmas boxes from artist Jason Snyder.

Retro printable Christmas boxes and tags

One set is designed to look like vintage boxes of lights from dime stores, while other sets feature old-fashioned gift wrap. Paper gems (+ templates) This has got to be one of my favourite projects to date…which is a good job because I nearly broke my brain putting the templates together!!

Paper gems (+ templates)

How to make 3D paper ball ornaments. I love 3D paper things. Love. And when I saw a little picture of what appeared to be paper balls in a CB2 catalog, I thought, "I am going to make those. " So the other day while Alex was writing a paper about mysterious things like polymers and flexible films and tactoids, I made a paper ball. Then I proudly announced I had created a tactoid and it was sitting on my desk. He giggled. These are made from 12 slotted flower shapes that fit together to form a sphere. Download the PDF templates here:Large ball (10")– print/cut 12 sheetsMedium ball (5")– print/cut 2 sheetsSmall ball (3")– print/cut 1 sheet Download a Silhouette .studio file here:Small ball (3")– unzip the file; cut 1 sheet.

If you want to hang your ornament, you might like to add the string before assembling the ball. Use the slits to join petals together. It might be helpful to think of the first piece as the "north pole," and then add a row of five flowers encircling it. ORIGAMI PIKACHU « EMBROIDERY & ORIGAMI. Pikachu origami version 2 – Kaboose.com Get more of everyone's fave Pokemon character with our Pikachu origami craft, version 2.

ORIGAMI PIKACHU « EMBROIDERY & ORIGAMI

Pokemon Crobat Origami. Origami Sun. Build 3D paper letters from a nifty font. Speaking of Fontstruct, I found something cool over there.

Build 3D paper letters from a nifty font

Punched Out is a free font that allows you to type letters, print, cut, fold, and glue to make 3D forms. Created by Tobias Sommer, it's available for download at Dafont or Fontstruct. I gave it a try while watching TV. It's a little tedious, but the result is fun! I printed the letters in gray, scored along the center of the dashed lines, and folded so that the printing ended up on the inside of each letter. Domo-kun.png (595×841) Origami is amazing - the traditional Japanese art or technique of folding paper into a variety of decorative or representational forms, as of animals or flowers. Origami is An Amazing Art now "origamoney"... koi carp butterfly camera tank dragon crab shark spider scorpion toilet and of course a penguin..

Origami is amazing - the traditional Japanese art or technique of folding paper into a variety of decorative or representational forms, as of animals or flowers.

Please visit stories, etc. for more pictures, stories, etc. Origami. Papercraft. Flashback: Woven Map Basket. Maps can be amazing design elements, with all their intricately drawn lines and minute details.

Flashback: Woven Map Basket

But what do you do with a regular paper map that is starting to fall apart from use? In CRAFT Volume 05, crafter Jane Patrick suggested we weave maps into baskets, a fun and interesting way to reuse castoffs and weave a little memory into a functional item. Check out her full tutorial here and pick up a back issue of CRAFT Volume 05, the Paper issue, in the Maker Shed.Woven Memory Basket Weave your vacation road maps into an attractive souvenir. By Jane Patrick Think of basketry as three-dimensional weaving. If you ever wove paper as a child, that’s the basis for this plaited basket. Materials 2-3 large road maps Contrasting string or thread Clothespins Cutting mat Rotary cutter Awl or tapestry needle Scissors Small tweezers White glue (optional) to further stiffen the basket Directions Step 1: Prepare the strips. Papercraft World. Elegant goldfish. Sonobe module. Instuctions for making this model Below is the Sonobe unit, designed by Mitsonobu Sonobe, which I learned from Kazuyo Inoue.

Sonobe module

Above is the capped icosahedron which she made for me from this unit; you need to make about 30 units for this, but you only need six if you want to make a cube. Since this must be very well known, I'm only putting a very brief picture of how to make it. The second line of instructions gives a little more detail for the last step. Just in case you want more details than above, you can find some more diagams here and here. Kazuyo first showed me a kind of stellated icosohedron made from this unit; and there are lots more things to be made from it. Origami Nut » Modular. Velociraptor - diagram. Origami Resource Center.